Alex, my blouse is your blouse. We opened them long ago but we seldom stop to look. I miss your e-mails. I know "argue threads" feel bad to you. I still don't understand why, though, and I bet if we go after it here we'll be sorry.

I thought Rich's was funny. The interaction bewteen the two viewpoints made it funny. Just the IDEA of them interacting made it funny. (The persistence of humans in communication is one of my favorite themes, whether it's humor or a movie like "Children of a Lesser God.") I didn't even need to know it involved Martha. It put my brain in the Tween Zone, where all thought is free and light and silly till I choose to come back to earth.

I just loved the juxtaposition of now-values and then-values. In fact in seminary it would be an exposition in Moral and Ethical Theology, where the struggle is to take old statements and apply them today as best we can. And I needed this as an example for a new friend who asked me about just that!

So thanks, Rich, whatever your motives were!

And thanks, Alex, for sticking with the discussion, easy or not. You go on an' hoe my blouse down any time, you old big bad woof.

~S~